Nothing has done more to spark therapeutic insight, generate ground-breaking treatments, and transform the way we practice than meeting the challenges of trauma treatment. We've not only gotten more precise in distinguishing varieties of trauma, and enhanced our understanding of how trauma lives in the body, we've also developed a range of new approaches that are proven to increase positive outcomes in your clinical practice.
To help you stay ahead of the curve in treating trauma, we've invited the field's leading innovators—Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Janina Fisher, Lisa Ferentz, Dick Schwartz, Mary Jo Barrett & Jamie Marich—for an online video course on the most powerful trauma treatment approaches today. Plus, we've included a practical, in-depth 5-hour seminar designed to help you incorporate new assessment techniques and trauma treatment approaches in your clinical work right away.
Join us for The Trauma Treatment Revolution—an online video course that dives into the latest advances in trauma treatment and introduces you to proven approaches that can increase your effectiveness in your work with trauma survivors. It covers:
To help you stay ahead of the curve in treating trauma, we've invited the field's leading innovators—Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Janina Fisher, Lisa Ferentz, Dick Schwartz, Mary Jo Barrett & Jamie Marich—for an online video course on the most powerful trauma treatment approaches today. Plus, we've included a practical, in-depth 5-hour seminar designed to help you incorporate new assessment techniques and trauma treatment approaches in your clinical work right away.
Join us for The Trauma Treatment Revolution—an online video course that dives into the latest advances in trauma treatment and introduces you to proven approaches that can increase your effectiveness in your work with trauma survivors. It covers:
- How to best use your own healing presence to regulate your clients as they move toward recovery
- Concrete steps for creating safety in the early stages of treatment so that vulnerable clients aren't retraumatized
- Details for creating right-brain-to-right-brain connection without allowing the therapeutic relationship to tip into disempowering dependency
- Proven strategies for mobilizing clients' resilience and tapping into resources offered by family and friends
- The key differences between single-incident PTSD and complex trauma
- Best practices for helping clients integrate the changes they experience in therapy into their everyday lives
The Trauma Treatment Revolution:
Increase Your Effectiveness with the Latest Advances
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Increase Your Effectiveness with the Latest Advances
Valued at $399.00
Today Only $249.95 (GST Inclusive)
Plus, earn up to 12.75 CPD Hours included in the price!
Take Trauma Treatment to a New Level of Clinical Effectiveness
Six Dynamic Interviews with the Leading Innovators in Trauma Treatment
Six Dynamic Interviews with the Leading Innovators in Trauma Treatment
When Talk Isn't Enough:
Mobilizing the Power of Embodied Awareness
Mobilizing the Power of Embodied Awareness
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Learn about new approaches that go beyond traditional talk therapy to provide traumatized clients a deeper, more lasting experience of healing. They include:
- Techniques for bringing the brain "online" so it's more fully present in the therapy room
- Understanding the limitations of exposure therapy with its emphasis on desensitization to pain and exploring alternative methods that encourage a fuller mind/body integration
- How to make the most of your own healing presence through attention to breathing, posture, and mirroring your clients' words and expressions
- An overview of emerging tools and research that promise new possibilities for healing from complex trauma
Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth:
From Devastation to Hope
From Devastation to Hope
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C
Discover how to guide traumatized clients to embrace healing in ways that allow growth to emerge from adversity and suffering. Learn how to:
- Plant the seeds of new meaning, increased self-compassion, and connection with others after the experience of trauma
- Help clients tap into their deepest inner wisdom by reinforcing personal strengths and accessing remembered resources
- Integrate writing exercises, drawing, role-play, guided imagery, and the creative arts to enrich the therapy experience
- Guide clients through the key transition points in the process of post-traumatic growth
The Challenge of Complex Trauma:
Embracing the Disowned Self
Embracing the Disowned Self
Richard Schwartz, PhD
Watch an extraordinary clinical video illustrating a step-by-step approach with a client affected by complex trauma. It shows how you can use Internal Family Systems strategies to help traumatized clients integrate their conflicted inner parts. You'll also learn how to:
- Connect clients with the calm, compassionate core Self that's the source of inner leadership
- Help clients communicate with disowned and disliked parts of themselves
- Avoid becoming the primary attachment figure and, instead, open the way for the client's own Self to emerge
- Use methods for transparently handling situations in which therapists commonly get emotionally triggered
Healing from the Bottom Up:
Resource States in Trauma Work
Resource States in Trauma Work
Peter Levine, PhD
Explore how to use your clients' natural instincts to heal and rebalance their physiology from the pioneer of Somatic Experiencing. Learn how to:
- Help clients access safety and positive resource states instead of repeatedly experiencing threats that no longer exist
- Master the SIBAM model for systematically observing clients' nonverbal responses
- Guide clients in "riding the waves" of their sensations as they exit from their immobility response and experience release from their original trauma
- Titrate your interventions to maximize your impact and avoid retraumatizing vulnerable clients
Include Families in Trauma Treatment for Maximum Effectiveness
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW
Examine alternatives to one-to-one treatment approaches, such as including family members of trauma clients in the therapy process. Learn:
- How to build a strong alliance through a 3-stage collaborative model of trauma treatment that emphasizes the importance of safety
- Techniques for using enactments to change negative feedback patterns in your clients' daily lives
- Approaches to teaching skills to clients and their families that increase the transfer of learning from the consultation room to everyday life
- Strategies for resolving conflicts and reinforcing positive experiences within couples and families
Trauma Therapy in Perspective:
Lessons from the Past 25 Years
Lessons from the Past 25 Years
Janina Fisher, PhD
Explore the history of trauma treatment, including the field's shift from a focus on experiencing the pain of the past to drawing on a client's strengths, resilience, and resources to build a fuller life in the present. Learn about:
- The limitations of exposure therapy and alternative strategies for bolstering cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioural resilience
- How to help clients develop a more empowering and coherent trauma narrative
- The contribution that brain science, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and the practice of "dual awareness" can make to trauma recovery
- Practical methods for heightening right-brain-to-right-brain communication in therapy
Plus Get a Six CPD Hour Seminar with Techniques You Can Use Right Away
The Latest in Trauma Treatments:
Diagnosis, Neuroscience & Best Practices
Diagnosis, Neuroscience & Best Practices
Jamie Marich, PhD
Increase your repertoire of assessment skills and therapeutic techniques for working with trauma survivors. Start applying what you learn in this in-depth "how-to" seminar in your clinical practice right away. You'll learn to use:
- Current modalities for effectively reprocessing traumatic material
- Somatic techniques to reduce or eliminate your client's body memories, flashbacks and dissociation
- Meridian-based techniques to decrease your client's arousal levels and modulate affect
- Techniques for Self-Mastery including mindfulness, cognitive approaches & values based approaches
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Treating Trauma: A 30-Year Perspective
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW and Richard Schwartz, PhD
How do you decide which trauma treatments will work best to meet a specific client's needs? In this premium bonus video, Barret and Schwartz offer a comprehensive overview of the evolution of trauma treatment as well as specific tools and strategies you can implement immediately.
Listen to a recorded Q&A call
with Janina Fisher, PhD and Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C
Act now to get concrete guidance on how to integrate the latest innovative treatments in your own clinical practice.
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Have You Ever Wondered...
- How do I talk about the benefits of Mindfulness with my clients?
- What to try when talk therapy with a traumatized client hits a dead end?
- Exactly how to pace therapy so a client isn't retraumatized?
- How to help clients get fuller access to their own strengths, resources, and inner wisdom?
- What's the most effective way to assess whether complex trauma underlies a client's other mental health issues?
- What the best ways are to make sure that the insights and skills clients acquire in your office carry over into their day-to-day lives?
Get the answers you're looking for from clinical innovators Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Janina Fisher, Lisa Ferentz, Dick Schwartz, Mary Jo Barrett, and Jamie Marich in this practice-transforming video series—The Trauma Treatment Revolution.
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
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Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating today's most powerful trauma treatment approaches in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
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Continuing Professional Development Certificates
PESI AU offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognised by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation.
The Trauma Treatment Revolution:
Increase Your Effectiveness with the Latest Advances
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Only $249.95 (GST Inclusive) for a limited time
Increase Your Effectiveness with the Latest Advances
A $399.00 Value
Only $249.95 (GST Inclusive) for a limited time
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Meet the Course Experts:
Bessel A. Van der Kolk, MD, is the founder the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and president of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific and educational projects. He is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theatre and EMDR. Click here for information about Bessel A. van der Kolk.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theatre and EMDR. Click here for information about Bessel A. van der Kolk.
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Click here for information about Peter Levine.
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment centre founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities. Click here for information about Janina Fisher.
Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities. Click here for information about Janina Fisher.
Richard Schwartz, PhD, earned his PhD in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University, after which he began a long association with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and more recently at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, attaining the status of associate professor at both institutions. He is co-author, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States.
Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients' descriptions of experiencing various parts — many extreme — within themselves. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy. It provides an alternative understanding of psychic functioning and healing that allows for innovative techniques in relieving clients symptoms and suffering. Click here for information about Richard C. Schwartz.
Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients' descriptions of experiencing various parts — many extreme — within themselves. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy. It provides an alternative understanding of psychic functioning and healing that allows for innovative techniques in relieving clients symptoms and suffering. Click here for information about Richard C. Schwartz.
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 35 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Click here for information about Lisa Ferentz.
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the founder and director of Contextual Change and coauthor of Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change and The Systemic Treatment of Incest. Click here for information about Mary Jo Barrett.
Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, RMT, is the author of Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment and Working with Survivors (PESI, 2014), EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (PESI, 2011), and two other books on trauma recovery. Marich began her career in human services working in humanitarian aid in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003. Jamie's journey with EMDR began as a client in 2004, and she's offered EMDR therapy as a clinician since 2006. Click here for information about Jamie Marich.
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A $399.00 Value
Only $249.95 (GST Inclusive) for a limited time
Plus, earn up to 12.75 CPD Hours included in the price!